Shop at the Official Colonial Williamsburg Retail Stores and Historic Area Shops.

Every artifact has a story to tell

Museum conservators are listening

Paintings yellowed by time, elegant woodwork hidden by repairs, and long-silent instruments find new life in the hands of expert curators and conservators. With a surgeon's care and a detective's eye, they restore the physical evidence of the past.

See how what was once dull is made bright again, and how silent objects can illuminate the lives of centuries past.